The appearance of Obchodna Street has been changing over the last few years  with each new banner moving from bad to worse. Its development is uncoordinatead, marked with “aesthetics” of early capitalism, global fastfood restaurants and uncompleted plans of alternating regimes of the 20^th century. The street is saturated with unnecessary information. Unregulated advertising space directly degrades the visual culture of one of…

Environmental remediation takes place slowly, mineral reserves have reached a critical level, scientific and technological development has shown a significant step forward. How to deal with historical, ecological, social challenges? The way would be the protection against negative influences in the form of temporary urban isotopes to avoid creating new residences but to restore and add the original ones accordingly. The combined structures…

The question of color use on residential buildings may be considered a general problem worthy of public discussion. How can the wider public be encouraged to evaluate or re-evaluate their views?

Our proposal suggests a movable intervention, to be set up in public areas within individual neighborhoods of Bratislava. It features a portable object – a cube – 2.5×2.5×2.5m, whose sides would offer…

The world today provides examples of overhead pedestrian routes in built-up areas of the city, the latest tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists in London. Bratislava does not have millions of Euros to spare, but we can afford at least the idea of cross cycle trail. –the motion of bike and walking trails in the direction South (Danube) – North (marketplace on the the…

The children’s playground at Budkova street (which translates as the Booth Street) has left many adults with memories of scratched knees or sand castles. Over the last 10 years, however, this potentially-lucrative piece of land has deteriorated and some local interest groups seem to be planning to use this large space in a manner not beneficial for the public. Opposite the playground there…

The courtyard at numbers 1 to 5 Tovarenska street makes you feel the burden of the past. There are barred ground floor windows, concrete pavement, garages reflecting a past that should be long gone. Mustiness. The school yard behind the garages hardly allows dim light in, only metaphorically through shouting. Our proposal, to a certain extent, brings back the times when the garages were not…

It is nice to see the number of cycling paths in Bratislava increasing. However, in some locations, they overlap with the sidewalks. The sidewalks are most often merged with the cycling paths at intersections and pedestrian crossings. The traffic lights apply to both pedestrians and cyclists, which can cause dangerous situations at the crossings.

Implementing traffic lights for cyclists could increase the safety…

The distances between some of the peripheral quarters of Bratislava are quite big. In addition, the routes include excessively busy places where the cycling is dangerous, or mountainous terrain where riding is demanding. This makes people opt for other transportation alternatives despite their cycling preferences.

We suggest a solution combining cycling with public transportation. Installing bicycle holders on buses would easily eliminate this…

Building an aquaponic farm in the deteriorating Grössling city spa area would prevent the degradation of a cultural monument as well as provide access to sources of local and organic fruit and vegetables.

An aquaponic farm represents an original and sustainable form of fish rising and vegetable growingfarming in a closed re-circulation system. It is an ecosystem in which fish, living in large…

Vacant lot.

Space – non-space.

An empty, abandoned, ‘cancelled‘, a trench covered with sheet metal fence pasted with billboards and graffiti scrawls, sometimes used as parking or dump. It is a shame, for it could be more. Even more than the house. It could become space for activities that cannot find their place elsewhere. Activities of civil associations, cultural organizations, activists and ordinary…